[Rarebooks] FS: What do Girl Scouts have to do with American Antiques??? Plenty!

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century
Furniture & Glass... Portraits by Stuart, Peale and others, for the
Benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, Inc.”

Published in New York by American Art Galleries in 1929.

DISCUSSION: The importance of the Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition cannot be
overstated, although sometimes it seems it has become something of a
cliché. Simply put, it was the most important and richest loan exhibition
of American antique furniture and other decorative arts ever staged to be
drawn in large part from private collections; although it did not start
the popularization of American antiques, it contributed largely to its
continued success and gave both scholars and collectors new focus; it
brought a large number of prominent dealers and collectors together in a
way which had not been accomplished since the Hudson-Fulton exhibition of
1909; it provided the first broad popular showing of American
Federal-period antiques; finally, it inspired an enthusiasm which gave
impetus to new books, catalogs and research. The Girl Scout Exhibition is
seen by many as the starting point for all serious modern scholarship in
the fields of American decorative arts. The catalog features illustrations
of fine furniture, textiles, glass, ceramics and paintings, drawn from
notable collections from across the country.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 8"x11", 926 items, hundreds of black & white
illustrations.

CONDITION NOTES: Newly bound into hardcovers with most of the original
front cover bound in. Minor wear, but overall clean and nice, with a tight
binding and no marks.

PRICE: $500.00

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